Donne

Undergraduate

Depending on whom you ask, the seventeenth-century writer and cleric John Donne was either England's greatest love poet or a total misogynist dirtbag, a man devoted to God or a heretical apostate, an upwardly mobile striver or the victim of his own passionate idealism, the author of some of the most beautiful lines of poetry and prose in the English language or the man who took that language and nearly broke it. In this class, we won’t try to decide any of these arguments—though you are always welcome to pick a side—but to explore the brilliant, weird, fascinatingly complex body of writing that set them in motion. WR , HU M 9:25am-11:20am